Advocate’s Brief: Tuesday, January 13

A fast-escalating lawfare push is being framed into “responsible” positions you’re expected to adopt in the latest moves of institutional "common sense."

Shalom, friends.

This week matters because three different arenas are trying to win the same fight: control what can be said out loud. Tehran is throttling visibility at home while threatening retaliation abroad. Gaza is being marketed as “normalizing” while Hamas remains armed and active. Western systems are being nudged to treat Israeli service and Jewish presence as a liability category.

Your job is not to match anyone’s emotion. Your job is to stay coherent when the room tries to make incoherence feel virtuous.

Below: Iran’s blackout decision clock, Gaza’s ceasefire-as-reconnaissance problem along the Yellow Line, Lebanon’s “state control” theater over Hezbollah rebuild lanes, and the lawfare push targeting IDF veterans — plus calm responses and traps to avoid.